Reply #19: How Hillary's ongoing temper tantrum is hurting the DNC's effort to go after McCain

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How Hillary's ongoing temper tantrum is hurting the DNC's effort to go after McCain

by John Aravosis (DC) • 4/21/2008

From Chris Cillizza at the Washington Post:

Unlike the House and Senate campaign committees, the DNC trails the Republican National Committee in fundraising. At the end of March, the DNC had $5.3 million on hand compared to $31 million in the bank for the RNC.

With such a meager cash on hand total, it's hard to imagine the DNC keeping up a sustained paid advertising campaign for very long.

What that means -- barring a quicker-than-expected resolution to the ongoing Clinton-Obama scrap -- is that an outside organization must step into the void.

...The dearth of money coming into the DNC and the lack of real dollars being spent on outside groups' attempts to define McCain present a serious problem for Democrats if the race between Obama and Clinton goes all the way to June 3 or beyond.

...more at the link